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Title

Ecology Lab Midterm

Description

Water systems and data collecting equipment

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Subject

Biology

Level

Undergraduate 3

Created

10/21/2008

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Term

neuston

Definition

organisms at the water's surface

Term

benthos (benthic)

Definition

organisms at or in the bottom substrate - i.e. clams and red worms

Term

Plankton

Definition

tiny free floating organisms that lie between the bottom and surface of the water -collected with a plankton net

Term

periphyton

Definition

organisms on submerged subtrates above the bottom (sides of cattails)

Term

nekton

Definition

free moving plankton of fish